RSS Feeds by Section RSS Feeds by Channel“Stewart/Colbert Events Are Path to Deeper Political Activism,” says an expert at American University in Washington, D.C. Will Stewart’s sincere plea to “take it down a notch,” ring true with apathetic youth? Will Colbert’s satirical “fear march,” change the minds of skeptical hard-liners?
Two recent articles have taken the social media to task for not delivering on the supposed idealized promises of revolution and change we all naively projected onto networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. If these criticisms are valid, what can we do to salvage the value of social media in our own personal and professional lives?
We’re excited to be attending the PRSA International conference October 16-19 in our nation’s capitol. We spend our days communicating with you by phone, email and the web, and we are looking forward to meeting you face to face.
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When it comes to news releases, the cat is out of the bag. News releases have been visible by the public for at least 18 years, but an entirely new level of transparency is emerging with social media.
The College Media Conference (also fondly known as the former Keith Moore conference) was held in Baltimore last month. Once again the organizers delivered a great program, with journalists from 15 media outlets sharing their insights, requests and critiques.
We recently asked Newswise members for feedback about opening up comments on Newswise articles, and we wanted to give our members an update on the progress as we prepare to deploy this new feature.
As the use of embedded video in news releases has risen in recent years, we wanted to initiate a discussion and keep our finger on the pulse of how it’s working for our colleagues in media relations, particularly for higher-ed institutions. There has been an interesting discussion about this topic going on over at the PIOnet group on LinkedIn.
More than a year in the making, the U.S. Congress and President Obama have completed their reforms to the health insurance system. It has been extremely interesting to watch the developing debate - sorting out fact from fiction, and reading copious expert analysis in the Newswise Health Care Channel.
It’s been a rough winter here in the Mid-Atlantic region. We haven’t seen bare ground since December, and temperatures at night remain in the 20’s. This is nothing for many areas of the US and Canada, but for us in Virginia the snowfall has broken all records, and frankly, we’re weary of icy roads and snowdrifts covering the sidewalks. Public schools were closed for almost two weeks, while working parents scrambled for child care.
